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Primulacee—A ndrosace. 373 
A. cilidta, with solitary purple flowers; A. ldctea, white 
umbellate flowers; A. lanugindsa, pink and yellow umbellate 
flowers ; and A. villdsa, pure white, with a yellow or pink eye, 
are some of the most desirable of the perennial species. 
Aretia Vitaliana is a tufted Alpine plant about 2 inches 
high with linear leaves and bright yellow flowers having the 
corolla-tube inflated at the middle, and the ovary 5-ovulate. 
Cortisa Matthioli is a scapose perennial about 6 inches 
high. Leaves petiolate, rotundate, irregularly toothed or lobed. 
Flowers purple, umbellate, drooping. Corolla funnel-shaped 
or campanulate, with a short tube and sub-erect limb. Capsule 
2-valved. Swiss Alps. =~ 
3. CYCLAMEN. 
A very distinct genus, remarkable for the large circular 
compressed perennial rootstock, from which the leaves and 
flowers spring. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube short; limb 
large, deeply lobed; lobes turned back, giving the flowers the 
appearance of a shuttlecock. Capsule 5-valved. There are 
about eight species, in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. The 
name is from xv«dos, a circle, in allusion to the spiral peduncle. 
Sowbread is the popular name for the species of this genus. 
1. C. Pérsicum (fig. 203).—This species is the one generally 
seen in conservatories, but it is not so hardy as the following 
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Fig. 203. Cyclamen Persicum. (4 nat. size.) 
species, and is merely introduced here for the woodcut. There 
are many handsome varieties. 
2. C. Europwum.—Leaves produced with the flowers, repand 
or crenulate, ovate-rotundate, deeply cordate at the base, with 
